Archive for June 30th, 2011

By L. B. Wasantha (USA) A group called the ‘Sri Lanka Almanac Vidhyuth Koshaya’ has presented the unedited version of the UK Channel-4’s “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields”, of which the broadcast has caused much international decry and condemnation against Sri Lanka. As appeared first in LankaWeb, the Facebook post http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150208292415642&oid=127743420642303&comments , by the Sri Lanka […]

LankaWeb Weekly Editorial June 28th 2010 As the USA continues to intimidate Sri Lanka on the “war crimes” issue with threats to examine “ƒ”¹…”other options’ unless Sri Lanka quickly addressed war crime allegations,the related double standard becomes more and more apparent and somewhat duplicitous if the USA is serious about the conditions issued to Sri Lanka which reek of a bipartisan […]

Sanjeewa Gamagedara (USA) Several weeks ago, a team from University of Kelaniya revealed the presence of arsenic in drinking water in the Rajarata area and in commonly-used pesticides. Furthermore, they related this finding with Rajarata’s chronic kidney disease. Later, another investigation carried out by Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) found that arsenic is present only in […]